Bill Monroe: Live from Mountain Stage, released by Blue Plate Records on May 11, 1999, documents Monroe's May 1989 appearance on the West Virginia public-radio music program Mountain Stage in Charleston — with Clarence "Tater" Tate on fiddle and the Blue Grass Boys lineup of the late 1980s. The thirteen-song set hits every essential Monroe touchstone: gospel quartet pieces (Beautiful Life, Working on a Building), fierce mandolin showcases (Southern Flavor, Rawhide), and signature staples (Uncle Pen, Blue Moon of Kentucky). The album catches the seventy-seven-year-old Monroe still leading a working band with the same authority he had brought to the Opry stage for fifty years.
Tracklist
- 1 My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin’ alt version 2:26
- 2 New muleskinner blues 2:51
- 3 Southern Flavor alt version 3:17
- 4 Beautiful Life alt version 2:43
- 5 My blue eyes from Heaven 3:01
- 6 Northern White Clouds alt version 3:43
- 7 Uncle Pen alt version 2:43
- 8 Blue Moon of Kentucky alt version 2:07
- 9 Sugar Loaf Mountain 2:44
- 10 The Old Home Town alt version 3:09
- 11 I'm working on a building 2:52
- 12 Rawhide alt version 2:31
- 13 Rollin' in my sweet baby's arms 2:17
